Pith Number

pith:6767CXU5

pith:2017:6767CXU5RYCFO2RRBJBZD7D7EH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Many Faces of Link Fraud

Alex Beutel, Christos Faloutsos, Hemank Lamba, Neil Shah

arxiv:1704.01420 v3 · 2017-04-05 · cs.SI · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6767CXU5RYCFO2RRBJBZD7D7EH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:41.503196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7fdf15e9d8e04576a310a4391fc7f21e5eea076651a97dc87797949df9e498c

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.01420 · arxiv_version: 1704.01420v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01420 · pith_short_12: 6767CXU5RYCF · pith_short_16: 6767CXU5RYCFO2RR · pith_short_8: 6767CXU5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6767CXU5RYCFO2RRBJBZD7D7EH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: f7fdf15e9d8e04576a310a4391fc7f21e5eea076651a97dc87797949df9e498c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf600b556dcf1d9369fcee233b78b59470d9e841ccc63fc91afab1fe67a128d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-05T13:39:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4f68a07a2f7dcb2bc5a1e138b63cd2dbe2912fcde1a2dcba65aaf2f021a4287"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.01420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}